Course Title

Case management In Mental Health 2 theory + 1 Practical

Course Number

551510

Instructor Name

Adnan Sarhan

Contact Information

[email protected]

Semester(s) and academic year(s)

Summer Semester 1

Compulsory / Elective

Compulsory

The course of case management designed to enable the students to be familiar with case management approaches, the effective collaborative role of the nurse will be stressed, the community nurse considered the most important familiar professional person with the patients psychiatric problems forethat the nurse can work with, psychologist, psychiatrist, social workers, and other persons and agencies for the benefit of the patient care plan and effective recovery process.

ماجستير صحة نفسية

Upon the completion of this course the student will be able :

1. To identify the major component of case management process
2. To be mature enough in assessing the mental and psychiatric concerns
3. Able to formulate effective care plan for the different cases
4. Able to work as a part of a community mental health team including psychiatrist, psychologist, social worker and other expected coworkers.
5. Ability to evaluate the care plan goals and modification of these goals according to the client needs.
6. Follow up the cases in the community and the mental health centers through the clinical days of the course.
7. Identify two cases, discuss the care given, and also link the cases with the evidence bases articles through discussing these articles in the clinical field and in the class.

• A.1- Define the basic concepts of case management process.
• A.2- identify the case management dynamics and How to gather help for the benefit of the patient.
• A.3- understand how can engage and initiate the patient- manager relationship.
•  A.4- discuss the role of every mental health professional for the benefit of the patient.
• A.5- Identify relevant research findings related to case management process.
• A.6- identify the assigned community for the case management process.
• A.7- formulate the basic lines of case management process.
• B- Intellectual Skills.

        B.1. communicate effectively with self and other field professionals.

       B. 2. Aware

       B.3. familiar with the cultural and social background of the managed community.

       C- Professional and practical skills

           This course is designed to fulfill the theoretical and also the practical parts and presentation, modeling skills in the class.

 C.1 familiar with communication skills.

 C.2 Able to formulate nursing care plan.

 C.3 Measure the client problems according to the priorities

C.4 Know the role of: Psychiatrist, psychologist, sociologist to make effective liaison with them.

C. 5 be confidential with the client problem.

C6. Practicing the case management process with the assisstent of the supervisor.

C.7 communicating effectively with the client by making effective professional interview.

C. 8 making scientific mental health days in the practice field such in schools.

• Onyet,S., 2004. Case management in mental health. Nelson thorns, UK.
• Gamble,C., and Brennan,G., 2006. working with serious mental illness, 2^nd ed, ELSEVIER.